[Table of Contents created by NILL in October 2016, based on materials available on tribe's website.]

Antonio perrella 7.03 minority rightsSomebody ...Wanted ...But ...So ...BettyFriedanTo understand why many women her age were discontent despite material comfort and familyThe mainstream media did not acknowledge that women in the 1950s had any reason tobe unhappy, unless they had ambitions outside the homeFriedan surveyed many young wives andmothers and wrote TheFeminine Mystique, which helped bring attention to the issue of women's lack of opportunity and rightsWomenwanted to make their own career decisions not get stuckas a house wife demanded respect and social rights equal to that of their male counterparts.The media was keen on not letting this happen so they depicted women living the normal life as happy, fully content with staying inside the house and doing house work, and made working women seem unhappy with the career they chose outside of the home.Women fought a battle of the sexes for many years to fight the sexism in this nation and even still women are seen as